3 April OA Conferences: 2 at Lund and 1 at Yale Stevan Harnad 19 Dec 2005 13:12 UTC
** Apologies for Cross -Posting ** Dear All, just before the April 24-25 Lund conference just announced: Third Nordic Conference on Scholarly Communication: Beyond Declarations - The Changing Landscape of Scholarly Communication 24-25 April 2006, Star Hotel, Lund, Sweden http://www.lub.lu.se/ncsc2006/ there is an April 21-22 Lund conference, on research-specific aspects of the same topic: 1st European Conference on Scientific Publishing in Biomedicine and Medicine 21 - 22 April 2006, Star Hotel, Lund, Sweden http://www.ecspbiomed.net/ "The principal aim of the conference is to broaden researchers' understanding and knowledge of the rapid changes in the scientific communication and publishing area and its possible implications on the research community." Meanwhile, across the pond at Yale, there is at the same time an April 21-23 Access to Knowledge (A2K) Conference on the same topic at the Information Society Project: The Access to Knowledge Conference Information Society Project Yale Law School New Haven, April 21st-23rd 2006 http://islandia.law.yale.edu/isp/a2k.html "The goal of this landmark conference is to bring together leading thinkers and activists on access to knowledge policy from North and South to generate concrete research agendas and policy solutions for the next decade. This conference will be among the first to synthesize the multifaceted and interdisciplinary aspects of access to knowledge, ranging from textbooks and telecommunications access to software and medicines." [Full Disclosure: I am scheduled to talk at both the first Lund conference (21-22) and the Yale conference (23), if I can manage the flight connections!] Stevan Harnad AMERICAN SCIENTIST OPEN ACCESS FORUM: A complete Hypermail archive of the ongoing discussion of providing open access to the peer-reviewed research literature online (1998-2005) is available at: http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/ To join or leave the Forum or change your subscription address: http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/American-Scientist-Open-Access-Forum.html Post discussion to: american-scientist-open-access-forum@amsci.org UNIVERSITIES: If you have adopted or plan to adopt an institutional policy of providing Open Access to your own research article output, please describe your policy at: http://www.eprints.org/signup/sign.php UNIFIED DUAL OPEN-ACCESS-PROVISION POLICY: BOAI-1 ("green"): Publish your article in a suitable toll-access journal http://romeo.eprints.org/ OR BOAI-2 ("gold"): Publish your article in a open-access journal if/when a suitable one exists. http://www.doaj.org/ AND in BOTH cases self-archive a supplementary version of your article in your institutional repository. http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/ http://archives.eprints.org/ http://openaccess.eprints.org/